This is drifting way off topic from the original post, but I am learning things about my quirks which have irritated many people over the years, but left me bewildered as to why they were irritated at me.

Years ago, you suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. You got me looking in that direction. No official diagnosis, but Asperger's sure seems to match many of my quirks.

I almost never use a question mark. I tend to ask questions by making statements. Instead of asking someone, "Are you OK?" I write "I hope you are doing OK."

I can see from this thread that I still have a ways to go in taming this quirk.

Let me think more about this. I'll getack to this thread in a day or two.